When you begin to fly over the Nazca desert, the first things you start seeing is hundreds of criss-crossing, straight lines. As we fly deeper into the desert, wide bands of flattened surface start to appear all over the desert. These bands, stretching over miles, come in a variety of different shapes like rectangles and trapezoids. Cut with accurate straight lines, we can clearly understand that these are not created by nature. Even a layman cannot help but think these are runways or airstrips. Other smaller zoomorphic symbols are strewn around these mysterious Runways and the symbolic link between them is unknown.

Did Nazca people experiment with flying?

This is a very relevant question. Did the Nazca people try to fly? History is filled with people around the world trying to fly. We are not talking about Vimanas of India, as some may claim that this is pure mythology. In the 9th century A.D, Abbas Ibn Fiernas flew by simply using an enclosure made of feathers. In 1010 A.D, Eilmer of Malmesbury created an aircraft and flew for 600 feet, before falling down. Note that the late Nazca period was 550 - 750 A.D, not very far from the first 'documented' flying attempts.

Gliders?

If the Nazca people did experiment with flying, the runways become very relevant. Even assuming they did not have complex design ideas (which is proven wrong here), they could have tried gliders and other primitive flying devices. A glider does not depend on an engine for its flight. If a glider is able to create sufficient momentum on land before launching into air, it can depend solely on wind for flying.

Proof of a glider model:

Interestingly, not far from the Nazca civilization, archaeologists have discovered an ancient aircraft model. Made of gold, you can see how it resembles a modern aircraft. It is aerodynamically designed with symmetric wings, a vertical tail and even a horizontal stabilizer! If we made a bigger, lighter model of this artifact, it could be used a glider. Of course, this is keeping things "primitive", by not adding engines or control systems.

Inclined Runways for flying:

Look at the runway above. What do we see? The runway runs all the way to the top of a mound. The runway is designed perfectly, and smoothed to get rid of rough patches on the desert. Could it be because a glider would be pushed all the way over the top of the mound and let go? In that case, the glider would at least fly for a few minutes. Also, the desert would be a perfect place for flight experiments, as you wont crash into trees, houses or other structures. We have to admit that this is a possibility, as there are no other reasonable explanations for these Nazca bands.If we accept that Nazca people used them for flying experiments, we have to accept that these are in fact, runways.

Runways for Alien Aircraft?

You can almost be certain that these are NOT runways for alien aircrafts. To begin with, if extra terrestrials did land in Nazca, they would have arrived through space which requires advanced flying devices. A mile long runway would not be necessary for an alien aircraft to land. In fact, even our modern day airplanes (for example, Harrier Jump Jet) can be used without runways. Secondly, these runways are carefully created by removing pebbles from the ground, a task that was definitely done by men on ground.

Could the Nazca have been successful at flying?

If the Nazca people were successful at flying even with just gliders, suddenly all the Nazca lines become very relevant. A glider could be pushed off a mountain top which would fly as much as the wind would support them. The Nazca desert is always windy, so they would have even flown for hours! With even 10 minutes of flight, they can cover a vast area and enjoy many of the Nazca figures from above! With hundreds of runways all over the desert, they could view the whole of the Nazca desert.

Recap:

Let us quickly summarize the evidence that Nazca people could have, in fact flown:

1. Hundreds of smooth, flattened surfaces closely resembling modern runways have been created by men all over the Nazca desert.

2. Golden aircraft like artifacts looking very similar to a modern day glider have been found in South America.

3. Some inclined runways lead up to mountain tops, ideal for engine-less gliding flight.

4. Hundreds of huge Nazca figures have been created, which would make no sense from the ground, but is visible from higher altitudes.

Is it time to agree that the Nazca people did in fact, fly? What do you think?

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I fully agree. Gliders can utilize updrafts just like many birds (condor, eagle, or stork) and attain high altitudes by just circling without any propulsion. El Condor Passa proves that they were mesmerized by the condor's flight, which relies on gliding. Making an adequate contraption is the almost imminent next step. Required controls could utilize ropes and levars sort of like the Wright brothers first airplane. High cliffs are great for take offs, and landing back on the platoe shall be relatively safe and easy on their leveled smooth "runways" even without any whills. In my humble opinion GLIDING was the pinnacle of the Ancient Andean Civilization, which sort of explains the existance of numerous golden miniatures - their treasured collectibles.

Notably also the very large geoglyps such as the one shown on the last picture would greatly help in identifying (from the air) the desired landing strip. Quite logically also the landing strips had to be very long and all over in all directions because gliders lack propulsion. They simply must land when all their kinetic and potential energy is spent, which is a bit hard to predict and control. All of which sort of knockouts the Aliens. Sorry :-(

147etal@gmail.com they are clearly landing strips for alien craft not runways of such more like land and park....if u no about the pioneer 10 craft we sent into space in1972 itsnow in the outer solar system in heliospear exploration its escaped velocity fro our solar systemand entered another if its left ours the last contact we had with it was 2003 and its now 6.8billion miles away from earth were alians encountered it . It had a gold disc on it it showed the solar system and a map of were we are and it showed a man and women and it showed scientific equations to show we are inteligent.. They needed gold for there circiuts and stuff which were soso more advaced than us but they new we are intelegent so they used a time machine worp drive on the way here and wen they came we were less intelegent so we were puppets on strings so from the heavens they came as gods like jesus cum from heaven he was worshipped as were they jesus is the story of the aliens cuming just a newer version..we gave them gold they took wat they needed from us without war and then left and as they go through time and space they give the locstion of earth to other alien life forms thats why theres so many abductions cuz come on if u were a single race doing scientific research u wudnt still be abducting us but if u were all different races and give the map to earth then they wud be cuming at different times and years so its not one race abducting and testing us its everyone of them that cum across the map cus thats wat we wud do go straight there and study them as they do us thats why we wud go to see if we cud learn from them.???????????

147etal@gmail.com they are clearly landing strips for alien craft not runways of such more like land and park....if u no about the pioneer 10 craft we sent into space in1972 itsnow in the outer solar system in heliospear exploration its escaped velocity fro our solar systemand entered another if its left ours the last contact we had with it was 2003 and its now 6.8billion miles away from earth were alians encountered it . It had a gold disc on it it showed the solar system and a map of were we are and it showed a man and women and it showed scientific equations to show we are inteligent.. They needed gold for there circiuts and stuff which were soso more advaced than us but they new we are intelegent so they used a time machine worp drive on the way here and wen they came we were less intelegent so we were puppets on strings so from the heavens they came as gods like jesus cum from heaven he was worshipped as were they jesus is the story of the aliens cuming just a newer version..we gave them gold they took wat they needed from us without war and then left and as they go through time and space they give the locstion of earth to other alien life forms thats why theres so many abductions cuz come on if u were a single race doing scientific research u wudnt still be abducting us but if u were all different races and give the map to earth then they wud be cuming at different times and years so its not one race abducting and testing us its everyone of them that cum across the map cus thats wat we wud do go straight there and study them as they do us thats why we wud go to see if we cud learn from them.???????????